Anthea performs the Brahms Double Concerto with Jason Duckles on cello. The Beaverton Symphony spring concert.

It Must Be: How do composers grapple with the end of life? Beethoven’s final string quartet asks, “Must it be?” and answers with a resounding, “It must be!” In contrast, Britten’s String Quartet No. 3 (1975), composed shortly before his death, leaves more questions than answers. Haydn’s unfinished final quartet opens the program.

It Must Be: How do composers grapple with the end of life? Beethoven’s final string quartet asks, “Must it be?” and answers with a resounding, “It must be!” In contrast, Britten’s String Quartet No. 3 (1975), composed shortly before his death, leaves more questions than answers. Haydn’s unfinished final quartet opens the program.

It Must Be: How do composers grapple with the end of life? Beethoven’s final string quartet asks, “Must it be?” and answers with a resounding, “It must be!” In contrast, Britten’s String Quartet No. 3 (1975), composed shortly before his death, leaves more questions than answers. Haydn’s unfinished final quartet opens the program.

It Must Be: How do composers grapple with the end of life? Beethoven’s final string quartet asks, “Must it be?” and answers with a resounding, “It must be!” In contrast, Britten’s String Quartet No. 3 (1975), composed shortly before his death, leaves more questions than answers. Haydn’s unfinished final quartet opens the program.

Anthea is the Director of the Majestic Chamber Music series, held in the heart of Corvallis in the historic Majestic Theatre. She is joined by cellist Jason Duckles and pianist Joy Ueng, as well as welcoming a young group of violinists to perform a violin quartet. The Corvallis All-Ages Volunteer Orchestra joins the musicians on stage at the end of the program,.

Anthea’s solo show based on her forthcoming memoir, CRESCENDO. Weaving together music and stories from her book, and performing on the violin that was stolen on a fast train in Germany, she delights with tales both tragic and funny.

Anthea performs the Brahms Double Concerto with Jason Duckles on cello. The Willamette Valley Symphony winter concert.

Anthea performs the Brahms Double Concerto with Jason Duckles on cello. The Willamette Valley Symphony winter concert.

Anthea’s solo show based on her forthcoming memoir, CRESCENDO. Weaving together music and stories from her book, and performing on the violin that was stolen on a fast train in Germany, she delights with tales both tragic and funny.

Sibelius & Grieg

Grieg’s beloved and unabashedly Romantic Piano Concerto, performed by Joyce Yang, dances and dazzles and reflects a time of personal happiness in the composer’s life. A combination of beguiling melodies and bravura fire, it found inspiration in the rhythmic patterns of Norwegian folk dances. Maestro Danzmayr also leads Stenhammar’s Second Symphony, a Romantic Swedish jewel not heard nearly often enough. Plus, Sibelius’ stirring The Swan of Tuonela joins this Nordic musical banquet, inspired by scenes from Finnish mythology. 

Jewish Memory begins with arrangements of niggunim, traditional wordless chants. Shulamit Ran’s Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory (2014) commemorates those lost in the Holocaust. Mieczysław Weinberg, who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland for the USSR, became a colleague and close friend of Shostakovich. His String Quartet No. 6, composed shortly after his escape in 1945, concludes the program.

Jewish Memory begins with arrangements of niggunim, traditional wordless chants. Shulamit Ran’s Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory (2014) commemorates those lost in the Holocaust. Mieczysław Weinberg, who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland for the USSR, became a colleague and close friend of Shostakovich. His String Quartet No. 6, composed shortly after his escape in 1945, concludes the program.

Jewish Memory begins with arrangements of niggunim, traditional wordless chants. Shulamit Ran’s Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory (2014) commemorates those lost in the Holocaust. Mieczysław Weinberg, who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland for the USSR, became a colleague and close friend of Shostakovich. His String Quartet No. 6, composed shortly after his escape in 1945, concludes the program.

Jewish Memory begins with arrangements of niggunim, traditional wordless chants. Shulamit Ran’s Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory (2014) commemorates those lost in the Holocaust. Mieczysław Weinberg, who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland for the USSR, became a colleague and close friend of Shostakovich. His String Quartet No. 6, composed shortly after his escape in 1945, concludes the program.

Jewish Memory begins with arrangements of niggunim, traditional wordless chants. Shulamit Ran’s Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory (2014) commemorates those lost in the Holocaust. Mieczysław Weinberg, who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland for the USSR, became a colleague and close friend of Shostakovich. His String Quartet No. 6, composed shortly after his escape in 1945, concludes the program.

Beethoven’s Eroica

A most heart-stirring concert awaits you, portraying vastly different approaches to grief and memory. In the “Eroica,” grief turns into fury, when the original dedicatee, Napoleon, crowns himself emperor and the enraged Beethoven now celebrates only “the memory of a great man.” From two bolts-out-of-the-blue chords to exhilarating finale, the Symphony’s majesty and drama, extraordinary scope, and bold harmonies all proclaim a new era in music. Turning his grief into sorrow, Berg inscribes his heartbreaking Concerto, sensitively performed by our concertmaster, “To the memory of an angel”—a vivacious 18-year-old girl struck down by polio. He paints her portrait in the first movement, and, in the emotional heart of the Concerto, incorporates Bach’s chorale, “It is enough; Lord, if it pleases you/Unshackle me.” 

Anthea’s solo show based on her forthcoming memoir, CRESCENDO. Weaving together music and stories from her book, and performing on the violin that was stolen on a fast train in Germany, she delights with tales both tragic and funny.

The Quartissimos okay at the historic Majestic Theatre

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4

New student compositions from the music technology class and the Lacroute Composer Readings & Chamber Music Mentorship Program, featuring the Thunder Egg Consort.

Delkin Recital Hall, Vivian Bull Music Center | 7:00 PM

Love Abounds explores the many facets of love—romantic, devotional, familial, and divine. Featuring a trio of vocalists from Portland’s Resonance Ensemble, the program spans centuries, beginning with the 12th-century music of Hildegard von Bingen, and continuing through Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Caroline Shaw, and David Lang.

Love Abounds explores the many facets of love—romantic, devotional, familial, and divine. Featuring a trio of vocalists from Portland’s Resonance Ensemble, the program spans centuries, beginning with the 12th-century music of Hildegard von Bingen, and continuing through Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Caroline Shaw, and David Lang.

Love Abounds explores the many facets of love—romantic, devotional, familial, and divine. Featuring a trio of vocalists from Portland’s Resonance Ensemble, the program spans centuries, beginning with the 12th-century music of Hildegard von Bingen, and continuing through Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Caroline Shaw, and David Lang.

Love Abounds explores the many facets of love—romantic, devotional, familial, and divine. Featuring a trio of vocalists from Portland’s Resonance Ensemble, the program spans centuries, beginning with the 12th-century music of Hildegard von Bingen, and continuing through Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Caroline Shaw, and David Lang.

Love Abounds explores the many facets of love—romantic, devotional, familial, and divine. Featuring a trio of vocalists from Portland’s Resonance Ensemble, the program spans centuries, beginning with the 12th-century music of Hildegard von Bingen, and continuing through Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Caroline Shaw, and David Lang.